For years I've referred to Santo vs. The Vampire Women as the "Gone With
The Wind of Mexiluchahero Movies". But if the genre has it's Citizen
Kane than it would be Santo el Enmascarado de Plata vs. La Invasion de
los Marcianos. Or as it's known in America , Santo vs. The Martian
Invasion. Directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna and written by Rafael Garcia
Travesi if this flick had been dubbed into English it would have enjoyed
the same cult status in America that Santo vs. The Vampire Woman does.
It still rates high on the Top 10 lists of fans of the genre.
Co-starring Wolf Ruvinskis and Maura Monti the story in some ways
resembles the 50s sci-fi classic The Day The Earth Stood Still. Though
the poster would make you think you were going to watch a Mexican
version of Robinson Crusoe On Mars. What appears to be a Martian advance
guard comes to Earth to force the human race to live in peace and stop
experimenting with the A-Bomb. Living in peace seems to be a good idea.
But gosh darn it we don't want aliens from another world to force us
into it. So it's up to the Man in the Silver Mask to save the Earth.
Usually when I think of comic book adaptations of el Santo's movies it's
Steve Ditko I imagine drawing them. The original artist on Spider-Man
and Dr.Strange would have been perfect illustrating the adventures of a
silver-masked grappler wrestling against the principalities and powers
of darkness. But for this science fiction flick adapted to the comic
book page I can only think of one of three Silver Age Superman artists
illustrating it. Curt Swan working in a tag-team with George Klein or
Murphy Anderson. Or Kurt Schaffenberger just to see his take on the
Martian women. And finally Wayne Boring who drew the Man of Steel with
the beefy , barrel-chested physique of a professional wrestler.
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